Judge — December 9, 1893 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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PHILANTHROPIC, Mrs. Weezky—* Pore chile! yo’ looks pow'ful cold ‘n mizzerble. Jes’ tie a couple ob dese flapper-jacks on yo’ ears, Dey’s right off'n de stove.” THE LOST FOUND. Aut Five (tho Aas caught a cat-fisk)—" By th’ gleat whitee dlagon! it is my blother Hop Wink from Plekin.”” A LITTLE VISION. | HAD panaken so heantly of the Christmas feast that I welcomed sleep as I never wel- comed it before. No wonder that I got up a little nightmare of my own, I saw myself rising gently upward, and then, with birds for company, I saw myself poised upon a steeple. The glow of glory was on my face, and ad- miring hosts looked on and wondered. Higher and higher through the ether I soared until a glimpse of the gates of heaven filled me with joy ineffable. 1 improvised a paean of praise, and my soul reveled in thoughts of ‘d blow by dose. I"b dot worth a scedt.” Srortinc poc—" Oh, dear! I hab got a beastly cote id by head. I wish subbody WE ALL HOPE HE GOT HIM. Mrs. PEASLEY: Mr. PEASLE’ ‘What you after, father—rats?” They’s a pesky skunk round here somewheres.” paradise. Higher and higher grew my jubilant song until— some one from below came in and wanted to know if I were practicing the part of Hamlet. It was a rude awakening, and the best I could do was to beg earnestly for an applica- tion of ice to my poor head and for some nostrum that would re-arrange my internal econ- omy. This tale is told not only to show that I can enjoy a night- mare at my own expense, but chiefly as a warning to those unthinking mortals whose appe- tites now and then run away with them, y comicbooks.com